If we all pattern our behavior after the worst examples available to us then all is truly lost.

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Still Don't Care

I’m taking a hiatus from Antiwar.com until they can afford to pay me again.In the meantime I’ll be working full time on Sandbox Generals, the sequel to the critically applauded and commercially capsized Bathtub Admirals.

I’ll also be posting blog-like notes here on Tuesdays.The Queer-Eye Joe issue has emerged again this week.Senator Ex-Prisoner of War John McCain says he’ll see Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repealed over his dead body, which I think bodes ill for the repeal of Don’t Ask.That patch on his cheek they said a few years had something to do with melanoma?I have it from unnamed senior officials that that’s actually a side effect of the on-going treatment McCain is having done to have himself genetically turned into a giant tortoise extend his life span.And as we saw in the last election, McCain will gargle bodily fluids in in front of television cameras in order to stay in office.So he could put the kibosh on gays serving in the military for as long as he manages to keep us entangled in self-defeating wars, which may be a very, very long time indeed.

He’ll do this despite the fact that the Pentagon review he demanded to have taken backfired on him: a Pentagon survey of active duty members and their families show that a majority couldn’t give a pig’s wings less about it if gay men and women serve openly.

Defense secretary Bob Gates, in a rare show of sensibility and independent thought, has encouraged Congress to repeal Don’t Ask law in a lame duck session before the Zombies take power in the House.

Gen. James F. Amos, the newly appointed commandant of the Marine Corps, says (as per the New York Times) that ending the ban in the middle of two wars would involve “risk” for Marines, who, unlike other service members who generally have private quarters, share rooms to promote unity.

Amos is as full of crap as a four-star officer can get and, folks, that’s might full of crap.

For starters, the Marines don’t put their troops in shared quarters to promote unity; they do it because they can’t afford to give them private quarters.Amos is also apparently unaware that other services put their personnel in shared quarters as well.On Navy ships, for example, only the senior-most officers have private staterooms.

Amos appears to further be comfortable with a blithe dismissal of the fact that his Marines already know that they’re sharing quarters with homosexuals and that, as per the Pentagon survey, they don’t care.

10 comments:

Good one. Your stuff about the military is really good so I hope you keep writing. Our military should only be used as a last resort for self defense especially when guys like Amos can rise to the top. When I tell people to read Pen and Sword, I use a quote from the movie "Other People's Money" to explain why. Substitute the word military for lawyers below and it would work just the same.

Kate Sullivan (Lawyer): Well, for someone who has nothing nice to say about lawyers, you certainly have plenty of them around.

Lawrence Garfield (Larry the Liquidator): They're like nuclear warheads. They have theirs, so I have mine. Once you use them, they fuck up everything.

By the way, I am not anti-military. That is a charge along with being unpatriotic that is used to tar anyone who questions the use of US force. I am anti using the military for stupid criminal purposes. I believe the US military leadership has been completely corrupted, led in no small measure by the corrupt US political leadership.

Thank you for your invaluable analysis of geo-political strategy, inter-service rivalry, and the corruption of the generals (and admirals) from the one-star rank on up. One & done Obamamania would be well advised to sh#t can them all.

I haven't stopped by in a while Cdr. Your tone has changed a bit, understandably so. You are giving voice to the frustration many feel with the Democratic party's enabling of the destructive stasis that the party of Satan seems to love.

I suggest that to increase the chances of DADT passing, we start a drive to see McCain fly a plane just one more time.

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Commander Jeff Huber, U.S. Navy (retired) was a naval flight officer who commanded an aircraft squadron and was operations officer of USS Theodore Roosevelt, the carrier that fought the Kosovo War. He earned a master-of-arts degree in post-modern imperialism at the U.S. Naval War College where many of his essays became required student reading. Jeff’s weekly satires on U.S. foreign policy high jinks appear at Antiwar.com and his critically applauded novel Bathtub Admirals (Kunati Books), a lampoon on America's rise to global dominance, is on sale now. Jeff lives with dogs in a house by the beach on Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, and in the summer he has a nice tan.